A thrilling, epic novel about a young American man who is arrested for murder in Pakistan and narrowly escapes through the Himalayas, experiencing war, love, and revelation along the way. Disillusioned with American life, Nicholas Sunder has spent months backpacking through South Asia, most recently in the company of a beautiful French woman he met in India. When the woman is found brutally murdered in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan, Nick is arrested and tortured by the Pakistani police, who are convinced he is the killer. Amazingly, Nick escapes their custody and heads off on foot through the steep mountains of Kashmir, the highest war zone on earth. Now a fugitive without papers, money, or a country that will welcome him, Nick is reduced to his most elemental human identity in an unforgiving mountainous landscape where his very survival is unlikely.
Nick's fortune turns when he encounters an eccentric Kashmiri smuggler and his mysterious companion, Fidali. An enormous, nearly silent man, Fidali not only knows a hidden way through the mountains but makes a deep impression upon Nick through his sacrifices for others. In time, after barely surviving great violence, Nick reaches an idyllic mountain village in Indian-occupied Kashmir, where he is drawn to Aysha, a remarkable woman unlike any he has ever met, who operates a medical clinic in the remote region. It is there he will confront the divide between Islam and the West and be forced to ponder how he has reached such a place -- forced to consider, in other words, Fidali's way.
Drawn from the author's own experiences trekking through Asia,
Fidali's Way brims with George Mastras's deep knowledge of the Himalayan region. He has walked the lands, climbed the mountains, and met the diverse peoples who call the high Himalayas their home. Few American authors have traveled as extensively as Mastras has through these remote, dangerous, and unstable places, and his personal insight is evident on every page. Not only a powerful suspense story,
Fidali's Way is a timely exploration of a politically complex region and a meditation on some of the most important issues of our time: the relationship between Islam and the West, the ruthlessness of fanatical religion, and the redemptive power of pure faith.
Sweeping in its scope and moral complexity,
Fidali's Way brings forth a story that only an ambitious, large-hearted novel can tell and introduces George Mastras as a major new American novelist.
一部驚心動魄的史詩小說，講述一位年輕的美國男子在巴基斯坦因謀殺被捕，並在喜馬拉雅山脈中驚險逃脫，途中經歷戰爭、愛情和啟示。
對美國生活感到失望的尼古拉斯·桑德（Nicholas Sunder）已經在南亞背包旅行了幾個月，最近與他在印度遇到的一位美麗法國女子同行。當這位女子在巴基斯坦的部落地區被殘忍謀殺時，尼克被捕並遭到巴基斯坦警方的酷刑，他們堅信他是兇手。令人驚訝的是，尼克逃脫了他們的拘留，徒步穿越喀什米爾的陡峭山脈，這裡是地球上最高的戰區。如今，成為沒有身份證明、金錢或能接納他的國家的逃犯，尼克在這片無情的山地中被迫回歸最基本的人類身份，生存的可能性微乎其微。
尼克的命運在遇到一位古怪的喀什米爾走私者及其神秘的夥伴費達利（Fidali）時發生了轉變。費達利是一位巨大且幾乎無聲的男子，他不僅知道穿越山脈的隱秘道路，還因為對他人的犧牲而深深打動了尼克。隨著時間的推移，在經歷了巨大的暴力後，尼克來到了一個位於印度佔領的喀什米爾的田園山村，在那裡他被一位與眾不同的卓越女性艾莎（Aysha）所吸引，她在這個偏遠地區經營著一個醫療診所。在那裡，他將面對伊斯蘭與西方之間的鴻溝，並被迫思考自己是如何來到這樣的地方——換句話說，被迫考慮費達利的道路。
《費達利之路》（Fidali's Way）取材於作者在亞洲徒步旅行的親身經歷，充滿了喬治·馬斯特拉斯（George Mastras）對喜馬拉雅地區的深刻了解。他走過這片土地，攀登過這些山脈，並遇見了那些稱高喜馬拉雅為家的人們。很少有美國作家像馬斯特拉斯那樣廣泛地旅行於這些偏遠、危險且不穩定的地方，他的個人見解在每一頁中都顯而易見。《費達利之路》不僅是一個強而有力的懸疑故事，也是對這個政治複雜地區的及時探索，以及對我們這個時代一些最重要議題的沉思：伊斯蘭與西方的關係、狂熱宗教的無情，以及純粹信仰的救贖力量。
《費達利之路》在其範疇和道德複雜性上都極具廣度，講述了一個只有雄心勃勃、心胸寬廣的小說才能傳達的故事，並將喬治·馬斯特拉斯介紹為一位重要的新美國小說家。
George Mastras is a novelist, award-winning screenwriter, and travel enthusiast. He was a writer, producer and director of the Emmy-award winning series, Breaking Bad.
